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This was the unlikely scene at LinkedIn Wednesday: Three Silicon Valley titans in a windowless room, surrounded by 20 young adults, armed with laptops, who had entered the U.S. illegally.

The laptop wielders came to the U.S. as children, and had since gotten hooked on programming.

The titans, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Dropbox founder Drew Houston, invited the group to participate in a Silicon Valley tradition, a 24-hour hackathon, to make a point: The U.S. should overhaul its immigration policy. Read More »